Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age: A Short History (Universal… (2008)

by Peter Green

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Covers the three centuries or so between Alexander's conquests in Asia to Cleopatra's defeat and suicide in approximately 160 pages in an attempt to provide an overview to the Hellenistic era to the general reader both on the level of general themes and chronology of events, which keeps things at a fairly high level and as a narrative rather than analysis. (

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Alexander the Great

Battle of Crocus Field

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Third Sacred War

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Peter Green discusses the personality and achievements of Alexander the Great, and continues with the military and political violence of the successor-kingdoms that fought over his inheritance.